Baking Oatmeal Molasses Bread
We eat an abundance of salads throughout the summer and usually grab a nice artisan bread to go along. The first item I tried from my recently acquired cookbook, With A Measure Of Grace was this bread. It works great with salads but also with soups, quiche, frittata- many things. One of my absolute favorites [...]
Term of the Week: Food Scold
Am I a bad mother for letting my daughter cover herself in soft-serve chocolate ice cream? It surely wasn’t organic. But I figured that when you’re at the state fair, you might as well enjoy what’s there (within reason; we didn’t get the chocolate-covered bacon. Yet.). So this morning I read about the term “food [...]
Abalone on the North Coast of California
I recently enjoyed a coastal weekend north of Bodega Bay with great friends. Not just any friends but ones who are as crazy as me about food and wine. One happened to be a diver, wild about foraging for shellfish of the mollusk variety, thus the star of the weekend was abalone. Saturday morning came [...]
The Prudence Penny Regional Cookbook
A friend who knows my penchant for cookbook collecting recently gave me three vintage cookbooks! I have quite a few mid-20th century titles, including some that I’ve inherited from my husband’s late grandmother. I especially love the food photos, with their faded tints and utter lack of food styling as we know it. The San [...]
Term of the Week: Gigantes
Photo by dailyfood Just what are Gigantes anyway? a) The name of a game. b) A cooking technique. c) A large, prehistoric animal. d) A type of bean. If you chose “d”, you are correct. There is discussion surrounding this bean variety. They have a several names depending on who you are talking to including [...]
An Evening with the Chef and the Sommelier
Chef Pajo Bruich and Sommelier Anani Lawson are in Sacramento once again for an experiential and delicious evening. Part II of Epicure & Discoveries in Wine is Saturday, July 24th at 6:00 p.m. As Pajo says, it will be an evening of emotions and tastes, both familiar and uncommon. Your cultural expectations of food and [...]
All Wine Roads Don’t Lead to France
I met Claiborne Thompson in the early 90’s while on a wine exploration trip through the Edna Valley on the central coast of California. Previously a tenured professor and Scandinavian Studies department chair at the University of Michigan, he and his wife and fellow professor Frederika Churchill stumbled on the winery scene in 1981, got [...]
Term of the Week: Scrapple
I just got back from my annual beach vacation in Delaware–the state where I grew up. There are certain foods I always have to eat while I’m there, and scrapple is at the top of the list. It’s not pretty and you don’t want to think too much about the ingredients, but if you develop [...]
Cook & Click Workshop with Elaine and Morgan
This sounds like lots of fun to me. Spend two consecutive Saturday mornings cooking with cookbook author and journalist Elaine Corn, then photograph the food you make with award-winning photographer and picture editor Morgan Ong. These professionals bring their expertise to Beatnik Studios in Sacramento for a first-ever cooking and photography class using a combination [...]
Andrae’s Bakery Celebrates Ten Years
From Thursday through Sunday, July 8th through 11th, Andrae’s Bakery in Amador City, CA will celebrate ten years. This bakery and mini gourmet food store is a foodie haven amongst the rolling hills and vineyards of the Sierra foothills, in the heart of the gold country. Matt, the baker, and wife Kimberly opened with bread [...]
